706 ARTICLE 3.

years of age, and who shall not have been found physically and mentally
qualified to discharge the duties of a policeman by the Board of Police
Examiners of Baltimore County, and no such appointment shall be made
until the applicant shall have filed with the County Commissioners a cer-
tificate from said Board of Police Examiners certifying that they have
examined and found that the applicant physically and mentally qualified
for the position.

1902, ch. 428. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 290. 1910, ch. 199, p. 572. B. Co. C. (1916),
sec. 438. 1920, ch. 164. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 523.

523. The County Commissioners may at any time remove, dismiss or
discharge any officer, including the Marshal or officers of any other desig-
nation from the police service for any offense against law or good morals,
for neglect of duty, inefficiency, physical or mental disability or breach
of discipline. The County Commissioners may punish any officer for any
offense by fine, not exceeding fifty dollars, or by suspension, not exceeding
one month or both fine and suspension; or they may remove, discharge or
dismiss such officer, including the Marshal or officers of any other designa-
tion or rank on said force as aforesaid. The Commissioners shall cause
to be kept in their office a minute book or books of county police in which
shall be recorded a list of all applications and date of appointment of all
officers of the force, any charge that may be preferred and dispositions
made thereof, all fines, dismissal or discharges, all condemnations and all
public reprimands issued by the County Commissioners and such other
proceedings concerning the police proper. The Commissioners may at
any time make a permanent reduction in the police force.

1920, ch. 164, sec. 438A. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 524.

524. There shall be a Board of Examiners for the Police Department
of Baltimore County composed of the President of the Board of County
Commissioners of Baltimore County, the Marshal of the Police Depart-
ment and the Secretary of the Board of Health, of Baltimore County,
who shall each serve without compensation in addition to that payable
to them by law for the discharge of the duties of their respective offices.
It shall be the duty of such examining board to ascertain by appropriate
investigation the qualifications of all candidates for appointment or pro-
motion in the Police Department of Baltimore County and to furnish
upon request to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County lists of
those who they shall deem qualified for appointment or promotion ar-
ranged in the order of their respective qualifications as disclosed by such
examination, and from such list of appointments, promotions shall be
made by the said Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County
except appointment of the position of Marshal of Police, provided, how-
ever, they shall not place upon such list the name of any person who shall
be less than twenty-one years or more than forty years of age, and said
examination shall be conducted by and under definite rules to be adopted
by said examining board from time to time and when so adopted to be
recorded among the records of the office of the County Commissioners